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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [June 14, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-write-html-from-julia/62893 "2021-06-14T14:54:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:**  [@tp2750](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tp2750)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-write-html-from-julia/62893/1 "2021-06-14T14:54:12Z")
We have great packages for embedding julia code into markdown documents, and render HTML using [Weave.jl](https://github.com/JunoLab/Weave.jl) or [Literate.jl](https://github.com/fredrikekre/Literate.jl).
However, sometimes I’ll like to generate an HTML-file from inside a julia-script rather than using one the templating packages. Something similar to what the [hwriter](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/hwriter/) R-package does.
The following works, but it is somewhat low-level:
```julia
julia> open("/tmp/index.html", "w") do io
show(io, "text/html", html"""""")
show(io, "text/html", html"My title
")
show(io, "text/html", html"Some text.")
show(io, "text/html", html"")
end
```
Is there already a package to help make this more ergonomic?
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**Author:**  [@dpsanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpsanders)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-write-html-from-julia/62893/2 "2021-06-14T15:20:07Z")
Maybe [GitHub - JuliaPluto/HypertextLiteral.jl: Julia library for the string interpolation of HTML and SVG](https://github.com/MechanicalRabbit/HypertextLiteral.jl)?
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**Author:**  [@tp2750](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tp2750)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 8:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-write-html-from-julia/62893/4 "2021-06-15T08:16:37Z")
Thanks for the link to [HypertextLiteral](https://github.com/MechanicalRabbit/HypertextLiteral.jl) @dpsanders .
I did not know of that, and it is definitely relevant for this usecase.
It appears to be mainly focused on improving on the `@html_str` string macro from base Julia.
I’m looking for something to reduce the amount of “boiler-plate” I need to type to generate an HTML-document, and as far as I can see, that is not the goal of HypertextLiteral.
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**Author:**  [@mike](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 8:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-write-html-from-julia/62893/5 "2021-06-15T08:57:18Z")
[GitHub - JunoLab/Hiccup.jl: HTML DSL AFAICT](https://github.com/JunoLab/Hiccup.jl) and [GitHub - JuliaWeb/Hyperscript.jl: Hyperscript: A lightweight DOM representation for Julia](https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Hyperscript.jl) come to mind for this if you’re trying to reduce boilerplate. Both work pretty well from what I recall.
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**Author:**  [@tp2750](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tp2750)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-write-html-from-julia/62893/6 "2021-06-15T14:46:02Z")
Thanks @mike. Both Hiccup and Hyperscript look like they can help me write HTML in a simple way.
The READMEs don’t show how to generate a full HTML document and write it to a file, so I’ll take a look at the source, and see if I can generate a simple example.
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**Author:**  [@tp2750](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tp2750)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-write-html-from-julia/62893/7 "2021-06-17T18:17:04Z")
Thanks for the solution @mike (even 2 solutions 😃 ).
Here’s a way to do it in [Hyperscript](https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Hyperscript.jl).
That is a clear improvement over the naive `@html_str` version:
```julia
julia> using Hyperscript
julia> cont =
[
m("h1", "My title"),
"Some text",
] ;
julia> doc =
[
m("head",
m("meta", charset="UTF-8"),
),
m("body",
cont,
)
]
2-element Vector{Hyperscript.Node{Hyperscript.HTMLSVG}}:
My title
Some text
julia> savehtml("/tmp/hyper.html", doc... ) ;
shell> cat /tmp/hyper.html
My title
Some text
```
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**Author:**  [@tp2750](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tp2750)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-write-html-from-julia/62893/8 "2021-06-17T18:44:53Z")
[Hiccup](https://github.com/JunoLab/Hiccup.jl) is also nice.
It does not have a dedicated save method, as far as I can see.
Here’s one way:
```julia
julia> using Hiccup
julia> cont =
[
h1("My title"),
"Some text"
] ;
julia> doc = html(
head(
meta(charset="UTF-8")
),
body(
cont
)
)
My title
Some text
julia> open("/tmp/hiccup.html", "w") do io
show(io, "text/html", html"")
show(io, "text/html", doc)
end
shell> cat /tmp/hiccup.html
My title
Some text
```
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**Author:**  [@waldyrious](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/waldyrious)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-write-html-from-julia/62893/9 "2021-06-18T15:48:40Z")
Thanks for sharing! Have you considered submitting those two examples to the respective READMEs? It would be a great help to others with the same question. 🙂
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**Author:**  [@tp2750](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tp2750)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 7:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-write-html-from-julia/62893/10 "2021-06-18T19:14:57Z")
Good idea @waldyrious .
I’ll look at this over the weeked.
I actually filed an [issue](https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Hyperscript.jl/issues/37) while preparing the first example 😄
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**Author:**  [@tp2750](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tp2750)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-write-html-from-julia/62893/11 "2021-06-22T19:53:17Z")
Done for Hyperscript: [Pull request #38](https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Hyperscript.jl/pull/38). I’ll probably leave it with that.